How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale (Paperback)

by Jenna Jameson (Author) "There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness..." (more)
Key Phrases: sponge cake, contract girl, tattoo shop, Imperfect Actor, Crazy Horse, Las Vegas (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
With its wit (the book is dedicated to Onan), its victim narrative (multiple sexual assaults), its celebrity dish (Howard Stern is actually well endowed), and its frank, one-fisted prose style ("After three hours of sweaty, psychotic sex, she handed me a huge black strap-on"), the queen of porn's autobiography is destined to become a lowbrow classic. Jameson's career began at 16, when she fell for Jack, a tattoo artist. At a party, Jack's neo-Nazi uncle raped Jameson. Unable to face her father, a Las Vegas cop, she moved in with Jack. Within a year, she went from high school cheerleader to stripper to nude model to porn actress, with a stop along the way to become a crack addict. Jameson's life wasn't so much a downward spiral as a freefall into darkness. But, as the porn world would have it, the harder she fell, the more everyone wanted her, and she quickly became a top nude model and porn star, and the country's highest-paid feature dancer, all while leaving a path of carnage worthy of several rock bands. Beneath Jameson's monstrous diva exterior, however, was a girl who just wanted to become a loving mother and wife. After many failures, she finally succeeded, and her X-rated book ends on an uplifting family-values note. Jameson's life was a mess, and with its multiple formats (interview transcripts, movie scripts, advice sidebars, diary entries, cartoon strips), so is this book. But it's a remarkably appealing and honest mess, and should earn Jameson some of the mainstream acceptance she so clearly desires. Photos.
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Product Description
With the help of writer Neil Strauss, porn superstar turned mainstream sex goddess Jenna Jameson has created an unforgettable autobiography that is many things at once: a titillating sexual history, an insider's guide to the secret workings of the billion-dollar adult-film industry, and a gripping thriller that probes deep into Jenna's dark past. The tales begin in the underbelly of Las Vegas, a cesspool of strip clubs, tattoo parlours, murder, and shoot-outs that turned the gawky brace-faced Jenna Masolli into the bombshell Jenna Jameson, one of the most recognized women in the world. Most of these stories Jenna has never told before, for fear of having to spend the rest of her life living in their shadow. Jameson rebounds in the adult-film business, where she encounters sadistic directors, experienced lovers of both sexes, rock star lovers, bitter rival starlets, and, finally, glory when as a relative unknown she seduces the international media at the Cannes Film Festival and goes on to become the biggest star the porn world has ever seen.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060539100
• ISBN-13: 978-0060539108
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,194,376 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)